Coalition education spokeswoman Sarah Henderson headlined an event for migration agents and private colleges in the weeks before tanking Labor’s high-profile student caps bill.
More than 20,000 students are contesting their visa refusals – roughly double the number in June – and most have been successful lately.
International traveller Rikard Reardon is part of a community of people celebrating Christmas Day away from family. He says it can be quite a joyful way to spend the holiday.
The Coalition has given its strongest signal yet that it will target rich city universities such as Sydney,Melbourne,UNSW and Monash with its own student caps.
Labor will issue a go-slow on student visa processing once universities hit a certain number to get around Peter Dutton’s decision to block its student caps bill.
Judy McMahon,owner of Rose Bay harbourside restaurant Catalina,said more than half of her employees were on visas.
The university as we know it is dead. COVID-19 nearly killed it,and AI has dealt the final blow.
Coalition immigration spokesman Dan Tehan was the featured guest at a private breakfast attended by education and migration agents the day before sinking Labor’s bill.
Peter Dutton promised deeper cuts to student numbers and said “plenty of international students in pretty schmick accommodation” were stopping Australians from accessing housing.
Labor’s laws to limit the number of foreign students have been blocked,the government calling Peter Dutton “a fraud” over his party’s decision.
A record number of international students entered the country in September ahead of the proposed international student caps due to take effect in January.